In the Amnesty and Airwars’s joint April 2019 report “War in Raqqa: Rhetoric versus Reality”, one woman was reportedly killed in alleged Coalition airstrikes in the area west of Al-Mu’taz street in Raqqa. Although Airwars assesses single sourced incidents as “weak”, researchers have assessed this incident “fair” due to the depth of material provided by Amnesty.

The woman, Lana Ali al-Njem, was killed at the same time as 11 members of the Al-Rahil family across the street. She was the older sister of Yassir Ali Najem, who was also killed in that strike. Initially testimonies stated that she was killed as a result of schrapnel of the strike across the street, but upon inspection of the site Amnesty researchers “felt that whatever killed Yassir’s older sister must have come from something else, maybe a separate strike.” The report of the strike across the street can be found here: CS1375. Amnesty interviewed Kraim al Rahil, a survivor who testified to both incidents.

Lana Ali al-Njem was in Jihad Sueilem’s house at the time of her death. She was with her husband and two young children, who all three survived the strike.